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Criminals at Large: The Iraq War Twenty Years…

The arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for Russian President Vladimir Putin came at an opportune moment. It was, if nothing else, a...

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Spent Matters: The AUKUS Nuclear Waste Problem

When Australia – vassal be thy name – assumed responsibilities for not only throwing money at both US and British shipbuilders, lending up...

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Trashing Asylum: The UK’s Illegal Migration Bill

He was standing before a lectern at Downing Street. The words on the support looked eerily similar to those used by the politicians of another...

16.03.2023 20

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The Warring Peace: The AUKUS Submarine Announcement

History is filled with failed planners and plans, threats thought of that did not eventuate, and threats unthought of that found their way into the...

14.03.2023 10

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Disastrous Harvest: Silicon Valley Bank and the Anti-Regulation…

Before the financial collapse come the aggressive anti-regulation lobbyists. These are often of the same ilk: loathing anything resembling oversight,...

13.03.2023 10

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Branding the Acceptable: Battling Cancel Culture at Adelaide…

Writing festivals are often tired, stilted affairs, but the 38th Adelaide Writers’ Week did not promise to be that run-of-the-mill gathering of...

12.03.2023 20

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The Ghost of Hugo Grotius: The UN High…

Ever so rarely, the human species can reach accord and agreement on some topic seemingly contentious and divergent. Such occasions tend to be rarer...

11.03.2023 30

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Australian war hawks, media, talk up war with China

Diligently and with a degree of dangerous imbecility, a number of media outlets are manufacturing a consensus for war with China, a country that has...

08.03.2023 3

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War over Taiwan: Australia’s Gang of Five

Diligently, obediently and with a degree of dangerous imbecility, a number of Australian media outlets are manufacturing a consensus for war with a...

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Neo-colonial dreams: Australia eyes the Indian education market

Over the last week or so, Australian politicians and representatives of the university sector got busy pressing flesh in India, hoping to open avenues...

07.03.2023 10

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Neo-colonial dreams: Australia eyes the Indian education market

Over the last week or so, Australian politicians and representatives of the university sector got busy pressing flesh in India, hoping to open avenues...

06.03.2023 10

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Fish Killing Mania: Australia’s War Against the Common…

The scene is unforgettable and unforgivable: an elected official, the deputy prime minister of Australia, cutting loose about a fish species...

06.03.2023 10

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Doing Washington’s bidding: Australia’s treatment of Daniel Duggan

The increasingly shabby treatment of former United States marine Daniel Edmund Duggan by authorities has again shown the Australian passport is not...

05.03.2023 5

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India’s Education Market: The Next Neo-Colonial Frontier

Over the last week or so, Australian politicians and representatives of the university sector got busy pressing flesh in India, hoping to open avenues...

05.03.2023 8

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China threat: Australia kowtows to US masters over pilot’s degrading treatment

The treatment of former US marine Daniel Edmund Duggan by Australian authorities in the service of their US masters has again shown that the...

02.03.2023 3

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Doing Washington’s Bidding: Australia’s Treatment of Daniel Duggan

The increasingly shabby treatment of former US marine Daniel Edmund Duggan by Australian authorities in the service of their US masters has again...

02.03.2023 50

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Corrupt and fraudulent: Laying bare the Adani Group

Gautam Adani’s (GA) US$218 billion vast imperium specialises in transport, infrastructure and mining, with far reaching feelers that have made their...

01.03.2023 5

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Avalon Airshow a display of militarism

The Avalon air show — a celebration of aeronautical militarism in the southern hemisphere which has been postponed because of the pandemic — is...

28.02.2023 10

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Avalon Militarism

The global pandemic was not completely catastrophic in its effects. It led to the cancellation, and postponement, of wasteful projects and events. It...

28.02.2023 20

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Sensitivity Rewrites: The Cultural Purging of Roald Dahl

Censorship is never innocent, made worse for its strained good intentions. For those responsible for setting and policing such policies, the inner...

27.02.2023 20

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Energy Wars: Outing the Nord Stream Saboteurs

When news first emerged over explosions endured by the Nord Stream pipelines, known collectively as Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2, an army of...

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Australia’s B-52 nuclear weapons problem

It is not farfetched to believe that delivery systems capable of deploying nuclear weapons will lead to them carrying those very same weapons....

18.02.2023 7

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Willing servant: Australia’s acceptance of US nuclear ambiguity

The AUKUS alliance is increasingly adopting a nuclear tone. First came the promise to furnish Australia with nuclear powered submarines, absent...

17.02.2023 6

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Irresponsible Politics: Australia’s B-52 Nuclear Weapons Problem

It is not farfetched to make the point that delivery systems capable of deploying nuclear weapons will lead to them carrying those very same weapons....

17.02.2023 20

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Ballooning Rhetoric: Aliens, Escalation and Airborne Surveillance

Things are getting rather bizarre at the US Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Its increasingly prominent...

15.02.2023 20

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ChatGPT: Boon for the Lazy Learner

Inside the beating heart of many students and a large number of learners lies an inner cheat. To get passing grades, every effort will be made to do...

14.02.2023 20

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Ballooning Paranoia: The China Threat Hits the Skies

Hysteria over balloons is a strange thing. Hot air balloons made their appearance during the Napoleonic era, where they served as delivery weapons for...

09.02.2023 30

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Ukraine’s Tank Problem

It seems to be a case of little provision for so much supposed effect. The debates, the squabbles, the to-and-fro about supplying Ukraine with tanks...

01.02.2023 10

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Doltish Ways: Biden’s Documents Problem

Through the course of his political life, the current US president has often been injudicious. He has stumbled, bungled and miscalculated. His...

24.01.2023 8

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Sinking notions: US lawmakers and Australia’s nuclear submarines

The implications for the AUKUS security pact were always going to be grave, significant, and unnecessary. It further subordinated Australia to...

19.01.2023 7

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HIMARS: Australia’s missile fetishism

The announcement this month by the Albanese government that Australia would be acquiring HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) batteries from...

19.01.2023 20

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A Picture of Global Complicity: Aiding Myanmar’s Military…

International relations remains the sum game of vast hypocrisies, a patchwork of compromises and the compromised. Every moral condemnation of a...

19.01.2023 20

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Rampant Speculation: Uranium, Dirty Bombs and Heathrow

The dirty bomb and its purportedly famed radiation dispersal attributes has an undeserved mythology. It serves to bloat budgets and confer grants on...

19.01.2023 20

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Nuclear Submarine Doubts: US Lawmakers and AUKUS

The policymaking apparatus behind the AUKUS security pact was shoddy from the start. It has raised questions about the extent US power will...

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Joining the war club: Australia’s HIMARS purchase

Australia’s purchase of High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) batteries from the United States is another irresponsible drain on the public...

18.01.2023 10

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Albanese must act to free Julian Assange

The unflinching United States effort to extradite and prosecute Julian Assange for 18 charges, 17 of which are chillingly based upon the Espionage Act...

01.12.2022 5

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The Duggan extradition case and the Chinese angle

While the high profile effort to extradite Julian Assange from Britain continues, the case of former United States pilot Marine Corps major and flight...

08.11.2022 9

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Julian Assange: Jennifer Robinson argues for a political solution

It was telling. Only David Crowe of the Sydney Morning Herald from the mainstream media turned up to the National Press Club to hear from lawyer...

23.10.2022 7

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Dated and fractured: Optus and data protections

Things are not getting better for Optus, a subsidiary of the Singapore-owned Singtel and Australia’s second largest telecommunications company....

04.10.2022 4

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Opinion: Gautam Adani’s ecological cosplay

Imagine the tobacco producer who invests in smoke limitation programs, or the arms manufacturer who attends a conference proposing to ban weapons and...

30.09.2022 8

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Breaching human rights: Australia, climate change and the Torres Strait Islands

The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) on September 22 said Australia had violated Torres Strait Islanders’ rights to enjoy culture and...

27.09.2022 7

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Back-door proliferation: IAEA, AUKUS and nuclear submarine technology

China’s permanent mission to the United Nations has been rather exercised of late. Its members have been particularly irate with the International...

19.09.2022 10

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Solomon Islands rejects Albanese’s election funding offer

Foreign Minister Penny Wong on September 6 told us Australia had offered to fund the Solomon Islands elections. “We have made an offer of...

09.09.2022 5

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Qantas, rain man and the virtual airline

Qantas, Australia’s first and for decades only international airline, is looking rather tattered: its standing diminished in an age of diminished...

05.09.2022 7

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Beggars in surplus: Australia’s university gangsters

The university sector was readying its begging bowls in the lead-up to the federal election. Poor investment decisions, notably in the Chinese market...

31.08.2022 10

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It’s all political: Julian Assange appeals his extradition

Julian Assange’s legal team has taken its next step along their Via Dolorosa, filing an appeal against the decision to extradite their client to the...

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The opaque Pacific: Fiji’s maritime essential services centre

China is constantly being accused of secrecy and a lack of openness about security and “defence” arrangements among partners in the Pacific, but...

23.08.2022 20

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The failings of Westminster: Scott Morrison’s shadow government

In one of the world’s most secretive liberal democracies, the revelation that former Coalition Prime Minister Scott Morrison ran a shadow...

16.08.2022 7

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Chegg, cheating and Australia’s universities

The note on Radio National’s Background Briefing on the morning of July 31 was sombre. A student, who did not divulge his real name but is known...

12.08.2022 50

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Corporations’ use of facial recognition technology paused after CHOICE investigation

The language is far from reassuring. Despite being caught red handed using facial recognition technology (FRT) unbeknown to customers, a number of...

02.08.2022 7

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